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7d ago
inSpent 6 hours tracing a pipe run that should have taken 20 minutes
Man, that is a classic case of the tools lying to you while you blame yourself. It's funny how we always assume the equipment is fine and the problem is our own math or planning, but sometimes the ground you set up on is the real enemy. I feel like every trade has that hidden gremlin, whether it's a warped level or a tape measure that got bent once and never straightens out. The worst part is that you waste hours muttering at the prints when the answer is just to stop and check your starting point first.
27d ago
inA customer's offhand remark flipped my take on hardwired zones
Hardwired never really dies, just gets ignored. Had a similar thing with a flooded basement last year, wireless went dead, old wires kept working after they dried out. I do the same thing now, keep the runs, add wireless where it makes sense. Storm stories change how you look at a panel pretty fast.
27d ago
inFound a town on an 1872 map that my GPS says is underwater
There was a piece on NPR a while back about how many towns got flooded for federal dam projects in the 30s and 40s, and the cemeteries were the biggest sticking point. People moved graves by barge in some places, but not always, and that's where the rumors start. My uncle used to tell me about a similar spot in Missouri where divers swear they've seen old headstones sticking out of the mud on clear days. The fact that your map still labels it Cedar Falls is wild, those old atlases hold details that modern software just erases. Honestly, the cemetery question alone would keep me up at night, because nobody wants to think about grandpa floating around in a fish habitat.